We're officially in the home stretch of the Temenos Ark! My #facility23 project has run since January and will wrap in two weeks. This last one ties it all together and we'll see @storyenginedeck and @HeroForgeMinis elements later in the month but right now, it's lore time.

New month, new asteroid! We're on 433 Eros in the Temenos Ark and our first #facility23 draw is for The Point. The rearmost part of the Ark, a memorial, an archive and a place to reflect for the crew of the massive vessel. Cards from @storyenginedeck. New month, new thread! Slipstream Canyon is next, a colossal, constructed canyon and venting system for the CO2 turbines that power Kane City. Also home to the incredibly dangerous sport of void jumping. Vents. Bungee chord. Bored belters. Fun ensues! Cards from @storyenginedeck

Now the sweary version; this piss eyed leaking sack of edge lord pseudo-incel weaponised sociopathy has done probably irreparable damage to this country's character, it's capacity for hope, it's long term economic future and it's short term mental and psychological health.

https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/1327300906010939392

This right here? Is a piece of shit. A pompous, conceited fuckwad who because he knew a little more than everyone else became convinced he was better than everyone else and everyone else deserved neither praise nor patience nor him.

This was very much me earlier. I am in fact literally back from getting what we call my 'sunlight tick'. Have I been outside today? Yes? That's a win.

https://twitter.com/LegalValkyrie/status/1326922339884392448

Written down it looks stupid, right? It isn't. This time of year is rough for some folks at the best of times. This? Is categorically the fuck not the best of times. I often have to untie a knot of shitty body image lessons, professional frustration and straight up stress by...

Thank you so much for joining us tonight, folks that was a BLAST! Brace for show notes! Tonight's fan art is 'Weather' from @emperiocism which is lovely and part of #petermartinweek2020.

I mean the man’s litany of corruption, in every sense of the word, is as broad spectrum as his base is not but as God is my ducking witness if anyone uses the words ‘fake news’ after January 20th I want their fucking dicks to drop off. I’ve watched friends and family deal with invertebrates in red baseball caps with single figure YouTube accounts claiming to be ‘the true press’ and every single fucking one of you who used that phrase helped make that seem okay.

And that's a book, folks! THANK YOU SO MUCH for listening to A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking's epic, heartrending finale. ACTUAL tears. ACTUAL blood. ACTUAL tweet thread. Our opening art this week is by @perryscribbles from Twitter. Thank you so much for this wonderful, super moody Peter Lukas

@jimwritesstuff @brendonconnelly @JDMac177 @realjackbowman @SarahPitard @BethEyre @TheBCProject @starplanes @HearCircles Thanks folks! Just collating this up. Unroll @threadreaderapp @jimwritesstuff @brendonconnelly @JDMac177 @realjackbowman @SarahPitard @BethEyre @TheBCProject @starplanes @HearCircles @threadreaderapp unroll @threadreaderapp

Well I’ve just had a fantastic chat with some of the creative team behind @HearCircles and the chef soundtrack is playing so let’s make focaccia. Add all these to a mixing bowl making sure that the yeast and sugar are as far apart as possible because if they got too close they’d discover the doomed romance between their children and wait that might actually be West Side Story.

Thanks so much for joining us, folks! As usual, here’s a little extra reading. Our opening art this week is by the amazing @thelilnan! We loved both Happy Birthday Peter and THE SO CUTE Stream Couple very much!

Seeing early rumblings of the traditional nonsense about NaNoWriMo. So, SUPER QUICK:

-If you want to do it, do it. I've done it twice and it was a massively positive experience both times.
-It's a BRILLIANT first step. Gets you a zero draft. You can do anything with that. -Make sure you do anything with that zero draft. Momentum after the fact is the key. Get it however you can, rewards, targets you colour in, anything.
-If you do it, congratulations! You've made art! Now you get to make it better!

The world is an absolute fucking catastrophe run by the absolute worst who despite what we were promised do not seem to lack conviction. Let’s make chicken Marsala meatballs. See that first photo? The one without the stock? Drop all of that in a food processor and add 400g of chicken. Then blend it until it looks like faintly upsetting ice cream.

Real quick because I have actual work to do today, the thing I think gets overlooked a lot about Campbell and Lovecraft is the shadow they cast. Campbell's specific definition of what SF he wanted didn't just shape a 'golden age' it shaped the critical criteria we use to assess what's good and what isn't. If you don't think that's intensely damaging and we're still paying the price for it, then look up Tiptree's career.

I haven’t had my coffee yet so this is going to be unfiltered.

The Mail was one of the cheerleaders for the Thatcher government and their systematic maiming of teachers’ reputations and the education system in general. That had a direct effect on my life, as the son of a teacher My father’s health suffered, very badly, for a long time as a result of those policies. Somewhere in the region of a third of the teachers in the area ended up taking early retirement. He was one of them. That probably saved his life.

Cuddly Uncle Bob, everybody.

https://twitter.com/rcade/status/1063921688541372416

Actually you know what, I've got some time, let's dig in a little here. The Heinlein quote in there 'don the red robe of the venerated elder' is almost a platonic example of everything that's trying to murder genre fiction in it's sleep.